Queen Silvia prized in Germany, recognized for Silviahemmet

The Queen of Sweden spent the past weekend in Germany after it had been announced earlier this year that she was the recipients of yet another award in her old home country, this time by the name of Courage-Preis. Her Majesty received it for her committed work for vulnerable and ill-fared children since many years via her organisation World Childhood Foundation.

The town of Bad Iburg in Lower Saxony had prepared for the visit by Sweden’s immensely popular Queen for a long time and window displays had been decorated with Swedish flags and portraits of the Queen several days in advance. When she finally arrived on Thursday afternoon several hundred locals crowded the streets outside the guildhall to get a glimpse of Silvia as she came to meet with the local leadership and sign the town’s guestbook. In the evening a select few hundred guests were then invited to see the Queen receive her award and five thousand euro in prize money at a ceremony in the town’s castle. The previous year’s winner, Richard Oetker, held the laudatory speech and called Her Majesty “a role model for many people around the world”.

Prizes in all their honour but Saturday was also a very special day, which was when the Queen – still in Germany – witnessed a concrete evidence of the importance of her committed work for dementia diseases for many years and the once groundbreaking and today world-leading work that Silviahemmet (The Silvia Home) carries out. One of the German Order of Malta’s hospitals, St. Hildegardis in Cologne, has during a longer period of time developed a department for dementia diseases and has now chosen to name if after Queen Silvia. The hospital and Silviahemmet has a regular exchange, the hospital staff has received qualified education in dementia care and help to develop a care concept close to the one Silviahemmet operates under. By her side in Cologne, the Queen also had her late brother Jörg’s wife Simone and daughter Vivien.

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